Category: Yoga Poses
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If you don’t have time for restorative yoga, you’re the very person who needs it the most
by Jay Hiller, October 7, 2022 I had a jittery vibe going on tonight. Some things that I chose and that I knew would be hard–whadayaknow–they are challenging me. I’ve had a few minor disappointments this week that all boil down to I can’t control everything. Losing the illusion of control is the worst thing…
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Splat would be a step up or how the forearm balance is going
by Jay Hiller, September 17, 2022 I haven’t been working on my forearm balance except to do this one thing I’ve been able to do for years, which is to start from a headstand with my feet on the wall and lift my head up. What I mean by splat would be a step up…
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Yoga Pose Focus: the subtleties of Janusirshasana (head to knee pose)
by Jay Hiller, September 2, 2022 Shortly after I started teaching yoga, I noticed that B.K.S. Iyengar includes variations of Janusirshasana in almost every yoga sequence of his book, Yoga for Holistic Health. So I started teaching it a lot. It’s not an easy pose for me. My body isn’t particularly bendy. Teaching Janusirshasana and…
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Inversions–my current yoga project
by Jay Hiller, August 27, 2022 It’s good to have a yoga project. By that I mean, that it’s good to have a specific pose or a family of poses that you’re working on consistently. I recently decided to shift my attention to practicing inversions. Inversions are fun to work on and they don’t require…
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A yoga instruction you can ignore for Wheel pose
by Jay Hiller, August 5, 2022 No matter what you call it–chakrasana, urdhva dhanurasana, or wheel–there are all kinds of factors that make today’s featured pose one worth practicing. It activates all seven chakras and provides a strong counter to all the forward-forward-forward of modern life as well as to the general emphasis on flexion…